Byzantine artists were the first Western artists to develop the use of abstraction.
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For the same reason they use all the other colors.
Artists didn't need to use perspective or create the illusion of depth.
A palette.
Matisse, Derain, Vlaminck, Rouault
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Fauvism, which is a kind of Expressionism.
No Fauvism is a kind of Expressionism. Fauvism started in 1905, Surrealism not until 1924.
Henri Matisse is the father of Fauvism.
Fauvism is an art term. It is the painting style of les Fauves. They were a group of artists that emphasized strong colors.
Fauvism was not discovered, it was a method of painting that was developed by a group of French artists who called themselves les Fauves. Their paintings exhibited strong color and painterly qualities. Henri Matisse and Andre Derain where the main leaders of Fauvism, which only lasted a few years.
Fauvism was preceded by the post-impressionists, primarily van Gogh and Gauguin.
Colors that are not used normally example green for grass and blue for the sky - Henri Mattise was one of those artists that experimented with a new styles called fauvism.
Neo-Fauvism was a style of painting from the mid-1920s said to be issued as a challenge to Surrealism.
The early part of the 20th century saw the rise of cubism, art deco and surrealism. None of these are based on fauvism. Fauvism is one branch of expressionism.
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